Program

 

The program will consist of invited and contributed talks. A poster session will also be organized. Please find below the current timetable of the program. To read the abstracts, please follow the link to the list of talks and posters.


August 23


10.30-12.30 Session 1: The AGN population as seen in the radio and gamma-ray bands - Chair: Elaine Sadler


10.30-11.00 T. Cheung: The AGN Population in Radio and Gamma rays: Origins and Present Perspective (invited)

11.00-11.30 L. Stawarz: The AGN Population in Radio and Gamma rays: Theoretical Perspective (invited)

11.30-11.45 H. Sol: Very high energy gamma-ray radiogalaxies and blazars (contribution)

11.45-12.00 D. McConnell: Counterparts to Fermi-LAT sources from the ATPMN 5 and 8GHz catalogue of southern radio sources (contribution)

12.00-12.15 M. Karouzos: Gamma-rays in flat-spectrum AGN: revisiting the fast jet hypothesis (contribution)

12.15-12.30 F. D'Ammando: To be or not to be a blazar. The case of gamma-ray narrow line Seyfert1 SBS0846+513 (contribution)



12.30-14.00 Lunch - Posters



14.00-15.30 Session 2: High resolution core and jet properties - Chair: Gabriele Giovannini


14.00-14.30 N. Kardashev: RadioAstron Space VLBI mission: early results (invited)

14.30-15.00 M.L. Lister: Blazars at high resolution: what large multi-epoch VLBI studies can tell us (invited)

15.00-15.15 M. Orienti: On the connection between radio and gamma rays. The extraordinary case of the flaring blazar PKS1510-089 (contribution)

15.15-15.30 Z. Abraham: The radio counterparts of the 2009 exceptional gamma-ray flares in 3C 273 (contribution)



15.30-16.00 Coffee - Posters


                    Chair: Xiaoyu Hong

16.00-16.30 Z. Shen: High precision position measurements of the cores in 3C66A and 3C66B (invited)


16.30-18.00 Session 3: Multi-wavelength correlations and variability


16.30-17.00 F. Tavecchio: Variability of blazars: probing emission regions and acceleration processes (invited)

17.00-17.30 T. Hovatta: Assessing AGN Variability and Cross-waveband Correlations in the Era of High-Quality Monitoring Data in Low and High Energies (invited)

17.30-17.45 X. Liu: VLBI core flux density and position angle analysis of the MOJAVE AGN

(contribution)

17.45-18:00 E. Valtaoja: Gamma-ray emission along the radio jet: studies with Planck, Metsahovi and Fermi data (contribution)



August 24


8.30-10.00 Session 4: Jet physics and the role of BH spin and BH accretion - Chair: Anton Zensus


8.30-9.00 A. Tchekhovskoy: What Sets the Power of Jets from Accreting Black Holes? (invited)

9.00-9.15 J. Poutanen: On the location of gamma-ray emission in BLAZARS (contribution)

9.15-9.30 S. Trippe: A deep view on the mm/radio properties of AGN (contribution)

9.30-9.45 M. Su: FERMI Gamma-Ray bubbles and the connection between radio, microwave and Gamma-Ray (contribution)

9.45-10.00 Final discussion (chaired by G. Giovannini, L. Maraschi, and X. Hong)